Naruto: ''Gotta See! Gotta Know! Kakashi-sensei's True Face!''Review

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Ever wondered what was behind Kakashi's mask?

By Charles White

Alright, come on; you can admit it. We all know that there has been at least been one point in our lives since we've started watching Naruto where we've wondered what does Kakashi's face looks like. Naruto has basically turned our curiosity into an episode that's one of the wackiest and possibly over the top episodes in the series.

This week had our original team of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura back together again. The three of them together almost immediately brings back a sense of nostalgia of the beginning of the series and it feels like it's been forever since we've seen the three interact together. Out of nowhere Naruto starts to wonder exactly what Kakashi's face looks like. Both Sakura and Sasuke almost immediately shoot him down. Sasuke is eventually drawn in once Naruto mentions that he could have big lips or buck teeth (a turn-on for Sasuke perhaps). The first attempt at trying to get the mask off was the group watching him as he ate and just as he was about to eat and he was pulling down his mask, Ino and her group interrupted. The second attempt which was rather horrible was them hoping Kakashi would take off his mask in the hot springs, but that didn't end up happening and then the third and the worst attempt was them posing as other ninjas to try to force Kakashi to take it off.

The last several weeks have all been "fillers" and this is easily the most recognizable of them all. This episode gets a bit of a mixed reaction, because it was great seeing the trio together and interacting, but on the other hand the plot was pretty ridiculous. It's not the fact that they made Kakashi's face into a whole episode, but the attempts by the trio to find out were pretty horrible. Naruto also finally dropped the ball for the animation for the first time in a long time, with some of the animation just not looking very sharp, but it almost seemed as if they did it on purpose to a certain degree.

Kakashi

While Naruto and Sakura were virtually unchanged with Naruto being the knuckle-headed one, and Sakura basically just going with what Sasuke says, it was surprisingly Sasuke who was acting unordinary. Usually it's Sasuke who's the serious one, and while he did have his moments. It was the first time that Sasuke's ever been used in such a comical way. The way his body got weak when Naruto mentioned big lips and buck teeth was pretty funny. It's also hard to believe that Sasuke would even participate in something like this usually, but even so it was nice to get some comic relief out of Sasuke. They also tried to throw in some weak storyline where another ninja who had been embarrassed by Kakashi long ago kept trying to poison him or hurt him, but it served no purpose and was particularly just a very bad storyline. By the end of the show they hadn't laid a finger on Kakashi and Kakashi had known they were there the whole time. The good thing is that they didn't leave us in suspense and we actually found out what was behind Kakashi's mask. It's another mask!!! Yeah, I know -- pretty lame.

Overall the episode wasn't very good, animation quality wasn't good, and the storyline was just kind of weak, but it was fairly enjoyable to a certain degree and it reminds us why we love the chemistry between Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura. Plus, sometimes we need a little silliness every now and again. Hopefully there aren't that many more episodes left until we get to an actual real storyline, because these types of episodes are starting to get rather annoying.